Both RedHat and Mandrake are switching to 3.2 with their betas when it's released in a week or two. The C++ ABI change is pretty small and won't affect a lot of programs out there.
What's is so imperative about Java that you don't want to use the best version of GCC out there? (They're actually using 3.1.1 and will have the final release in 9.0)
That would make sense if TiVo writing to a disk drive was an intensive process, but it's really not.
Let's hope they do a better job than ATi
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ATi has marketed a couple of their cards with TiVo-like capabilities, and they are awful. It's not a driver issue this time (a first for ATi), but the software iself is crappy and unreliable. Without a Mac it won't do me much good, but it's nice that someone's going to give it another go.
Your point might be valid if Photoshop were for the casual user, but it's not. It's a high quality image tool designed for graphical artists who need the capabilities it features and will pay for them. Adobe offers a home version for under a hundred bucks, but I'm sure you won't be paying for that one, either.
Well, one workaround for this particular exploit is to not share a LAN with someone who would do that sort of thing.
You mean like the thousands of users on my cable network that I share a DNS server with? I'm not sure I trust them too much, but I can't really do much about that.
So rather than filtering viruses at the server when they are received, you'd rather have them propogated to thousands of users and hope they're secure? That's intelligent.
Why would we want a standard Instant Messenger? Putting everything under one umbrella brings us back again to the problems with Microsoft and not having any choices. Isn't choice what we want?
Yes, it will increase the distance that gigabit copper can be run, as well as increase the signal-to-noise ratio. With gigabit switches starting to hit the market at decent prices now, I'd be very surprised if we saw slower hardware than that making use of Cat6.
No, no one challenges their right to exist, what they are trying to protect is their "right" to impose an outdated buisness model on the public.
Since when does blatant theft against a company constitute an outdated business model? If people started walking into Wal-Mart every day and taking things off the shelves and leaving (not that anyone would want to), does that make their business model outdated? Fuck no, it makes the people stealing thieves, and they'd put guards at the doors to protect their merchandise. The way people pass off piracy as a company having an "outdated business model" is completely ridiculous.
Regardless of your experiences, there are some decent community colleges around. Why would he want to pay the huge prices on large universities to take some math classes when his obvious intent is learning for the sake of learning?
Tera Term is most definitely NOT the best Windows SSH client. Besides being less configurable and scriptable than PuTTY, the terminal emulation is often poor, and most importantly, it doesn't support SSH v2 in the SSH add-on. If there's someone between you and your server with a sniffer, SSH v1 is no more secure than telnet, literally. You might as well put a sign up on the side of your house with your password.
SmartFilter has done no such thing. They have grouped SourceForge in an MP3 category. They've made no statements about them, and it is a given administrator that's blocking such a category. Are you suggesting we sue the administrators of SmartFilter?
A few people have pointed out that Apple has put a trailer online for The Who Towers, so if you have broadband and the ability to play video in Apple's favorite format, you can check it out. I'm 0 for 2, so I guess I'll wait.
It would appear that broadband isn't the only thing you're missing, chief.
I agree, it takes no effort to register an account and uses next to no private information. You'd think everyone would do it. It makes you wonder why the editors take shots at the New York Times every time there's an article posted because of their required registration, huh?
I'm disappointed with their choice of OPN
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I'm especially disappointed with Rob Levin, but at the same time, I'm proud of OFTC.net which is turning out to be a worthy replacement for OpenProjects. Once again, people have demonstrated the Internet's abilitity to route around greed the same way it routes around damage.
For those who aren't up to scratch with IRC history, Rob Levin is the founder of OpenProjects, a successful forum for Open Source developers. However, recently he was sacked from his workplace. Despite being offered employment in his area and worldwide, he has refused them on grounds of "being too good" and has instead taken the easy way out and pilfered the OpenProjects funds to maintain his $150,000 per annum income. Levin is now nothing more than an opportunist who is exploiting the goodwill of sponsors and the community, misrepresenting his own personal keep-me-rich charity as an Open Source fund, despite never having contributed a single line of code to any Open project. Recently, he's taken to abusing volunteers and developers on the IRC network, threatening to shut them down or "K-Line" (permanent ban) them from the network unless they conform with his views and contribute to his salary, in effect trying to milk them for money. He also knows exactly what people with resources to donate want to hear and is often able to sweet-talk money out of companies and individuals who want to assist the Open Source community.
Note that I have nothing but respect for the other OpenProjects staff members, particularly their ircd coders. I hope that they will be successful in ejecting LILO from the team before he runs OpenProjects onto the rocks. After all, the network is every bit their property and the property of the bandwidth sponsorors as it is of this corrupt and misguided individual.
In the meantime, I welcome you to #Mandrake and #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net!
Right, because after all, breaking compatability and changing the behavior of a daemon is something we want to do. It's a shame Debian couldn't figure out the right way to do things.
His bill would allow copyright holders to set up decoy files and use other techno-tricks like file-blocking and redirection to throw P2P pirates off the trail, but it would forbid those holders from employing tactics that would damage or destroy pirates' own computer systems.
Sorry guys, it's really not as exciting as everyone would like to cause an uproar about. I'll hold back comments on journalistic integrity, of course.
Exploiting a daemon running as root is going to yield root privileges, it doesn't matter if root is allowed to log in through that daemon or not. You're talking about two different concepts here.
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Both RedHat and Mandrake are switching to 3.2 with their betas when it's released in a week or two. The C++ ABI change is pretty small and won't affect a lot of programs out there.
They're actually using GCC 3.1.1 from CVS now and will include the official 3.1.1 in 9.0. I wouldn't worry to much about vendors, either.
What's is so imperative about Java that you don't want to use the best version of GCC out there? (They're actually using 3.1.1 and will have the final release in 9.0)
That would make sense if TiVo writing to a disk drive was an intensive process, but it's really not.
ATi has marketed a couple of their cards with TiVo-like capabilities, and they are awful. It's not a driver issue this time (a first for ATi), but the software iself is crappy and unreliable. Without a Mac it won't do me much good, but it's nice that someone's going to give it another go.
Your point might be valid if Photoshop were for the casual user, but it's not. It's a high quality image tool designed for graphical artists who need the capabilities it features and will pay for them. Adobe offers a home version for under a hundred bucks, but I'm sure you won't be paying for that one, either.
In the continuing Bioware tradition, I think we can expect to see this game sometime around 2006.
Well, one workaround for this particular exploit is to not share a LAN with someone who would do that sort of thing.
You mean like the thousands of users on my cable network that I share a DNS server with? I'm not sure I trust them too much, but I can't really do much about that.
So rather than filtering viruses at the server when they are received, you'd rather have them propogated to thousands of users and hope they're secure? That's intelligent.
Why would we want a standard Instant Messenger? Putting everything under one umbrella brings us back again to the problems with Microsoft and not having any choices. Isn't choice what we want?
Yes, it will increase the distance that gigabit copper can be run, as well as increase the signal-to-noise ratio. With gigabit switches starting to hit the market at decent prices now, I'd be very surprised if we saw slower hardware than that making use of Cat6.
No, no one challenges their right to exist, what they are trying to protect is their "right" to impose an outdated buisness model on the public.
Since when does blatant theft against a company constitute an outdated business model? If people started walking into Wal-Mart every day and taking things off the shelves and leaving (not that anyone would want to), does that make their business model outdated? Fuck no, it makes the people stealing thieves, and they'd put guards at the doors to protect their merchandise. The way people pass off piracy as a company having an "outdated business model" is completely ridiculous.
Regardless of your experiences, there are some decent community colleges around. Why would he want to pay the huge prices on large universities to take some math classes when his obvious intent is learning for the sake of learning?
Tera Term is most definitely NOT the best Windows SSH client. Besides being less configurable and scriptable than PuTTY, the terminal emulation is often poor, and most importantly, it doesn't support SSH v2 in the SSH add-on. If there's someone between you and your server with a sniffer, SSH v1 is no more secure than telnet, literally. You might as well put a sign up on the side of your house with your password.
SmartFilter has done no such thing. They have grouped SourceForge in an MP3 category. They've made no statements about them, and it is a given administrator that's blocking such a category. Are you suggesting we sue the administrators of SmartFilter?
A few people have pointed out that Apple has put a trailer online for The Who Towers, so if you have broadband and the ability to play video in Apple's favorite format, you can check it out. I'm 0 for 2, so I guess I'll wait.
It would appear that broadband isn't the only thing you're missing, chief.
how hard is it to give yourself a handle? sheesh
I agree, it takes no effort to register an account and uses next to no private information. You'd think everyone would do it. It makes you wonder why the editors take shots at the New York Times every time there's an article posted because of their required registration, huh?
I'm especially disappointed with Rob Levin, but at the same time, I'm proud of OFTC.net which is turning out to be a worthy replacement for OpenProjects. Once again, people have demonstrated the Internet's abilitity to route around greed the same way it routes around damage.
For those who aren't up to scratch with IRC history, Rob Levin is the founder of OpenProjects, a successful forum for Open Source developers. However, recently he was sacked from his workplace. Despite being offered employment in his area and worldwide, he has refused them on grounds of "being too good" and has instead taken the easy way out and pilfered the OpenProjects funds to maintain his $150,000 per annum income. Levin is now nothing more than an opportunist who is exploiting the goodwill of sponsors and the community, misrepresenting his own personal keep-me-rich charity as an Open Source fund, despite never having contributed a single line of code to any Open project. Recently, he's taken to abusing volunteers and developers on the IRC network, threatening to shut them down or "K-Line" (permanent ban) them from the network unless they conform with his views and contribute to his salary, in effect trying to milk them for money. He also knows exactly what people with resources to donate want to hear and is often able to sweet-talk money out of companies and individuals who want to assist the Open Source community.
Note that I have nothing but respect for the other OpenProjects staff members, particularly their ircd coders. I hope that they will be successful in ejecting LILO from the team before he runs OpenProjects onto the rocks. After all, the network is every bit their property and the property of the bandwidth sponsorors as it is of this corrupt and misguided individual.
In the meantime, I welcome you to #Mandrake and #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net!
I dunno, I'd say this pretty clearly outlines the most important reason that Magic online will suck.
Perhaps they'll be willing to share it with the rest of us. I've been waiting for it for a few months now and still can't get it. ;-)
Right, because after all, breaking compatability and changing the behavior of a daemon is something we want to do. It's a shame Debian couldn't figure out the right way to do things.
1.) Release large project as open source software for anyone to use and distribute as they wish.
2.) ???
3.) Profit
Needless to say, I think it needed some work.
His bill would allow copyright holders to set up decoy files and use other techno-tricks like file-blocking and redirection to throw P2P pirates off the trail, but it would forbid those holders from employing tactics that would damage or destroy pirates' own computer systems.
Sorry guys, it's really not as exciting as everyone would like to cause an uproar about. I'll hold back comments on journalistic integrity, of course.
The past two releases of Xine support Sorenson and plays this trailer perfectly. I'm impressed, I'd highly recommend it.
Exploiting a daemon running as root is going to yield root privileges, it doesn't matter if root is allowed to log in through that daemon or not. You're talking about two different concepts here.